Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

1917 LOVE 459
any other; if it be betrayed, it bears it, for its ground
and spring is the mercies and forgiveness of God; its
crown is meekness; its life is everlasting love unfeigned.
It takes its kingdom with entreaty and not with contention,
and keeps it by holiness of mind.
In God alone
can it rejoice, tho none else regard it, or can own its life;
it is conceived in sorrow and brought forth without any
to pity it, nor doth it murmur at grief or oppression: it
never rejoices but thru suffering; for with the world's
joy it is murdered. I found it alone, being forsaken. 1
have fellowship with them who have
lived
in dens and
desolate places of the earth, 'and thru death obtained the
resurrection and eternal holy life."
To bless them that curse us and to do good to them that
hate us, is not only above and beyond human nature, but
contrary to it, and until thru regeneration
PARTAKERS OF THE DIVINE NATURE
we cannot attain to it.
we are made
By this means therefore we
prove that we are true "children of that Father of ours
which is in the heavens" and that "Christ dwells in our
hearts by faith," until we become by
GROWING UP IN ALL THINGS UNTO HIM,
rooted and grounded in love and filled unto all the fulness
of God, unto all the plenitude of the Divine Nature.
This may be entered upon suddenly by faith, as the Spirit
came at pentecost, but is notwithstanding a process of
conception, gestation, and birth gradually infilling and
transmuting every atom of flesh into immortal substance.
"-ririk
WHEN we can learn to do our work as the little bee
makes its honey, or as the faithful horse draws its load.
without noise or desire for gratitude and appreciation,
then will our services become acceptable to the Father.